I IntroductionLanguage production w

I Introduction
Language production within a meaningful context and through interaction has been demonstrated to assist second language acquisition (Nagata, 1998; Ellis & He, 1999; Ohta, 2000). According to Swain’s output hypothesis, language production within a meaningful context and through interaction:
1. provides the opportunity for ‘contextual’ use of linguistic resources, which leads to ‘automaticity’ in language use;
2. forces ‘syntactic processing’, where students pay more attention to syntax when listening in order to use it in their own language production later on;
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